Ok, now THIS I find hard to believe
 

I just got pointed to http://www.book-mark.net/galleries.html. I can not believe book-mark would do something like this, but the design looks a little too familiar to me.

I figured the GFY would be the fastest way of clearing this thing our of the way... I checked and double checked to see if it was really Mark's Bookmarks that was clearly stealing my design here... I still find it hard to believe...

Guys, stop this please... I don't mind if people learn from each other, but this is ridiculous!

Ive gotten my bookmarks set to something funnier.

that huns-yellow-pages dot whatever domain.

Is that page public? Maybe he just did it as a joke?

hmm looks really similar.. bad move of mark

Damn! It's a dog eat dog world after all!

nevermind, i thought you meant your bookmark was changed to as in auto home page changing.

have you seen that huns-yellow-pages dot site that was doing that homepage change stuff?

its all public domain :fart

I was about to talk shit cuz it looked like the old Mark's to me...

but then I clicked again to check...

and I got the page you must be pissed about Hun !! That's pretty strange ?? Can't wait to hear the story behind this one..

It wouldn't be reported to me by a surfer it is wasn't public... it's there, I have pages that aren't public (yet), they all sit on my local server, not on my main domain...

But, but...Its GREEN!!

:winkwink:

J/K Hun, it is clearly a ripoff.

Same here, the first time I clicked it wasn't anything special....clicked again and it's identical to The Hun...

I'm making popcorn..

"Please visit my sponsors and keep this Page free!" on the banner on top ;)

looks like a cheap thehun clone ;)

dunno why he did that.. marks page was also popular before

Damn...that's weak.

The URL was pasted in with a "." at the end first... minor bug in the auto-HTML on this board I guess... anyway, the URL that's in there now goes to the page that was reported to me... Very strange...

That design looks pretty. I think I'll use it too.

Wonder if I can get some paid listings in the 6 - 15...

Does Parney rep Mark's now?

:Graucho

Patrick
Surely it has to be some kind of a joke.
At least he didn't call it the "green pages"

Oz

DESIGN?!

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you mean the way the words arranged there??

If it was yellow I would think I was at the hun...

funkmaster must of gotten board.

That's just odd. Marks has been around for ages and used to be considered 'big' (not sure if it still is). Is it a hack or a sign of desperation? Either way I can see why it'd piss you off.

btw all the galleries are free hosted ones. most of ads are ND's.


eek

Tipsy... not pissed off, just puzzled why they would do something like this... can't believe they're THAT desperate...

Can't appreaciate it too much though. The least they could have done was ask first (which would have gotten 'no' as an answer, but still...)

It actually looks really nice!
Wow.

Congrats on the Purchase!!
(or is still a secret that you bought mark's bookmarks?)

I need butter for my popcorn.. Anyone wanna pass the butter?

The more you look the more you think it has to be a hack or joke (albeit not funny). Just too much is directly copied.

hmm check http://www.book-mark.net/ .. there is no link to the galleries.htm anywhere on the page.. so i don't understand why such version exists

Perhaps the wrong choice of words. Really puzzling though at the moment.

I don't mean to insult you (especially since your site is so successful), but your design is shit. I reminds me of my first GeoCities page from 98 (not that my skills have improved any). Why anyone would make a carbon copy of the hun site and make it aqua is beyond me.

??????????????

Maybe just a 'private' joke to show a couple of people that was leaked then?

bwwaahahahahahahahha -- idiot

Giorgio_Xo, the quality of my design is not the issue here. Part from that, people come to my site to see naked women, they don't come to see how good a webdesigner I am. Simple as that...

But like I said, that's not the issue here...

live page:
http://www.book-mark.net/mark.html

WTF were you thinking page:
http://www.book-mark.net/galleries.html

Always amazed me how many people think the punter wants to look at pretty graphics on a slow loading page rather than porn pics. :)

Isn't it obvious that it's a joke? There's no link to it on the site, so it clearly isn't meant as a surfer page. Nobody would be that stupid, after being around for years.

Bugger - you beat me to it.

funny, I would imagine directly e-mailing him would be faster
but this way will amuse the masses

Well too fuckin bad. The gals are different, the banners are different, the title is different, the colors are different just because the "look" is the same then thats just how the world works. Look at the new Accord Coupe and The Mercedes CLK, from the back if someone were to see them they could not tell them apart and you dont see them in court.

All the new tgps look the same, I could think of at least 20 urls that look the same. Just because you have used that layout for a long time doesnt mean that you are the soul owner of the "IDEA" you cannot copyright that, otherwise reality tv would not exist nor would anything be innovated.

If you cant stand the heat then get out of the kitchen

This is not a lashing just my :2 cents: since most ppl feel a tendency to suck up as if they have no opinion at all.

Its not a "nice" move from Marks part but no one said the world had to be a fair place.

hmm anybody recognized that galleries.htm is 100% with hosted galleries? maybe its for search engine hits etc

If this is a joke, why didn't I hear it from them then? Why did they go through the trouble of putting links, banners and text in there. And why do I hear from a confused surfer about it??

yep, http://www.book-mark.net/mark.html is live

:glugglug

April fools joke they never used?

yep

http://www.markscash.com/contactus.html

contact him by icq..

http://www.book-mark.net/mark.html is still the real page so whats the big deal

Private joke maybe? Surfers tend to end up in the strangest places (someone makes a page, posts it on a small message board as a joke, search engines pick it up, surfer finds it).

Asshole remarks like that are always funny. If you agree with someone considered 'big' in terms of traffic or whatever there's always some asshole who has to say it's sucking up. Wasn;t that long ago I was posting bitching about how the reviewing has got a little shitty and pretty un-WM friendly on the hun but then that was just 'sucking up' too I suppose. What a stupid fucking comment.

Yeah, right Zaha... whatever...

and you think Mercedes walks away from that without a word? Think again...

I think it's weird that I get a surfer report about a page that clearly is a little over-inspired from my site. So over-inspired the word 'copied' springs to mind. I don't mind people learning from each other, but this is over the limit. Simple as that.

I would never take a copy/over-inspiration to this board normally, that's done through other ways (lawyers for instance), what I think is amazing here is that it's one of the sites that indeed was (or still is, I don't know) one of the 'big sites'...

Of course, the big sites need healthy competion, that's good, but I don't think it's good if they start copying from each other

But again, I'm puzzled, nothing more, nothing less. Could be a joke, if it is I'd love to hear about it so we can all have a laugh... right now I don't think it's funny yet... maybe I need some more hints, which is why I came here with this link...